Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has been paying attention to comments about Borderlands 4's performance since it launched this past Friday, and he's got a characteristically brusque suggestion for you if you're dissatisfied.
As part of a very lengthy string of posts on social media platform X over the weekend (which also included multiple threads and responses to other users), Pitchford told one user who suggested Borderlands 4 should "look good without relying on AI upscal[ing]" to "code [their] own engine".
Pitchford suggested the user "show [Gearbox] how it's done", sarcastically suggesting that those currently working on the game's technical side are "clearly dumb and don't know what they're doing", and that "the world's greatest" technical staff "don't seem to know what [the user seems] to know".
For context, Borderlands 4, which launched on Friday, has attracted a Mixed user review score on Steam, with the majority of negative reviews pointing to sub-optimal performance as their reason for scoring the game negatively.
Some users are suggesting that Borderlands 4 runs poorly on hardware that's pretty new in PC terms, although others say that features like DLSS and frame generation alleviate the problem significantly.
Pitchford himself recommends that players use...
